Shoe parts? Try $300 worth of Tony Llama western boots. My buddy is a "purebred Border Collie" who is twice the size size of a mature male BC. He's got the body and brain of the Greater Pyrenees that is apparently his other parent. Got him to be a service dog for SWMBO, but he was just about untrainable. GP, not BC. He is, however, a sweetie whose voice drops a couple of octaves when he hears someone at the door. Sounds like 800lbs of Hellhound then. Really only about 90lbs. After about age 3 he quit chewing on everything, so there is some hope. Maybe not much, but some.
If there is no Rainbow Bridge, I'm not going. It won't be Heaven without my dogs and cats, and even the stinking little rat. And my favorite prayer is "Dear God, please help me grow up to be the person my dog thinks I am. "